This year's German women's lacrosse playoffs will be held in Karlsruhe for the first time on May 27 and 28
At the event, the best eight women's teams from Germany play for one of the four places in the German Championships. The season of the four national leagues (North, South, West, East) is still ongoing. The top two teams in each league qualify for the play-offs. The Karlsruhe women's national league team also has a good chance of playing in the play-offs.
What is lacrosse?
Lacrosse is a ball sport in which a hard rubber ball is played with a lacrosse stick.
lacrosse stick). The aim of the game is to score
to score the most goals. The modern sport of lacrosse has its origins in North America and was
practiced by the indigenous people of the East Coast and the Great Lakes, the areas
of today's Canada and the USA. The game was and still is
known today in these cultures as a ritual and tribal tradition
and called Baggataway or Tewaraathon ("little brother of war").
named.
Some of the games were played with more than 100 participants over large
areas in which seemingly random objects such as trees or rocks often served
trees or rocks served as goals. It was reserved for male players only
players, which was due to the special position of women in the
tribal culture and was used, among other things, to prepare for war and
preparation for war and to settle tribal conflicts. Not infrequently
ended in serious injury or death.
